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Citizens Advice stolen laptop was encrypted

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2007-12-13 13:37:02 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Advice Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Clients from the Belfast area Number Affected 60,000 Types of Data Name, address, date of birth, and national insurance number*. In a number of cases, financial data A National Insurance number is roughly equivalent to a U.K. version of an American Social Security number Breach...
 
Tags: laptop encryption, laptop encryption software, advice, encryption, encryption product, citizens advice, laptop, sought advice, personal data
 
 
 
 
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www.e-victims.org

2008-01-17 16:24:56 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...advice (for that, the UK-oriented site Id recommend is www.getsafeonline.org ), and not on reporting incidents to the police ( who probably dont have the capability to investigate anyway ), but on offering practical down-to-earth advice on your rights and your next steps in complaining or getting recompense In many cases, youre in trouble pay...
 
Tags: credit card company, credit card, site continues, site, company, practical down-to-earth advice, down-to-earth advice, e-victims, org
 
 
 
 
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Password Expiration: Like Margarine and Water?

2008-05-27 00:00:00 by Dr. Ari Juels in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...advice was first circulating, most margarines contained high quantities of trans fats, concoctions that have turned out to be so harmful - to the heart, among other things - that they are now banned in restaurants in NYC. Similar dogma applies to the advice to drink eight eight-ounce glasses of water a day for overall good health. Everyone...
 
Tags: water, margarine, password expiration, 8x8 water doctrine, cardiovascular health, advice, substitute margarine, similar dogma applies, health
 
 
 
 
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Brushing up on my math skills...

2006-07-21 04:38:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...advice also did a lot of good. I am an active member of Wilmott -- an online community of quants (Username: Jomni). At first, I was the one asking questions, and now I give answers and advice myself (on topics that are not mathematically deep I never stop reading. Part II of the PRMIA Professional Risk Managers' Handbook is a good refresher...
 
Tags: derivatives, topics, plain vanilla derivatives, discuss topics, quantitative finance topics, financial derivatives, quantitative finance, papers, research papers
 
 
 
 
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AIB technical problem discloses details of bank transfers

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2007-11-28 17:08:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...advice notices to some AIB customers that made international payments between the 13th and 15th November 2007. This affected 15,000 payment advices, which were sent in error to the wrong customers Reference URL The Irish Times Story Computer Weekly Story RTE Business Story Report Credit The Irish Times Response From the sources cited...
 
Tags: bank, account, bank account details, aib bank, bank account, aib, details, wrong customers, customers
 
 
 
 
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Diminutive XSS Worm Contest Drama and Status Update

2008-01-06 17:34:38 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...advice in the browser security arena for free (for which I have actually been chastised by other executives who feel like Im wasting my time since Im not making any money on it). I do it because Im actually interested in solving the problem. To date I also have never been paid by any company who has ever been hit by an XSS worm. I have,...
 
Tags: browser companies, browser, browser security arena, code, people visit, people, worm code, diminutive xss worm, xss worm
 
 
 
 
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Myth vs. reality: Wireless SSIDs

2007-10-16 07:08:58 by Steve Riley in Steve Riley on Security
 
...advice -- and it's amazing how often I continue to see this. By the way, also ignore any advice that says to use MAC address filtering . It's amazingly trivial to spoof the MAC address of an allowed supplicant -- simply sniff the traffic, look at the MAC addresses, and use the neat little SMAC utility to change your MAC to one that's...
 
Tags: simple ssid discovery, network, ssid, wireless network, networks, enterprise networks, wireless networks, mac, secure networks
 
 
 
 
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The Trouble with Threat Modeling

2007-09-26 19:11:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...advice, and you want the experts to agree Most of the threat modeling processes previously taught at Microsoft were long and complex, having as many as 11 steps. Thats a lot of steps to remember. There are steps which are much easier if youre an expert who understands the process. For example, asset enumeration. Lets say youre threat modeling...
 
Tags: threat, threat models, threat model, reasons threat, service threat, term threat, threat effectively, playsound threat model, development process
 
 
 
 
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Stolen UK Ministry of Defence laptop affects up to 600,000

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2008-01-20 14:51:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Advice can be sought by emailing recruitdata@check.mod.uk We have also established a helpline for individuals to seek further advice. The number is 0800 0853600. This number will be open between 1000hrs and 1700hrs today (Saturday 19 January 2008), 0800hrs to 1700hrs on Sunday 20 January and 0700hrs to 1900hrs between Monday and Friday ...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, sensitive personal information, information, extensive personal data, personal data, personal, information held, data protection practices
 
 
 
 
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2008-02-07 00:00:00 by Editor in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
Ben Casnocha: The Blog: Some of the Best Speaking Advice Ever Study Hacks Blog Archive The Art of Speaking: "There is a special circle in hell for those who use laser pointers," this and other advice from a master speaker
 
Tags: laser pointers, special circle, master speaker, advice, art, casnocha, blog, hell